/#Action=CreateLoadBalancer
http://elasticloadbalancing.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=CreateLoadBalancer<p>Creates a Classic Load Balancer.</p> <p>You can add listeners, security groups, subnets, and tags when you create your load balancer, or you can add them later using <a>CreateLoadBalancerListeners</a>, <a>ApplySecurityGroupsToLoadBalancer</a>, <a>AttachLoadBalancerToSubnets</a>, and <a>AddTags</a>.</p> <p>To describe your current load balancers, see <a>DescribeLoadBalancers</a>. When you are finished with a load balancer, you can delete it using <a>DeleteLoadBalancer</a>.</p> <p>You can create up to 20 load balancers per region per account. You can request an increase for the number of load balancers for your account. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-limits.html">Limits for Your Classic Load Balancer</a> in the <i>Classic Load Balancers Guide</i>.</p>
Query Params
<p>The name of the load balancer.</p> <p>This name must be unique within your set of load balancers for the region, must have a maximum of 32 characters, must contain only alphanumeric characters or hyphens, and cannot begin or end with a hyphen.</p>
<p>The listeners.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-listener-config.html">Listeners for Your Classic Load Balancer</a> in the <i>Classic Load Balancers Guide</i>.</p>
<p>One or more Availability Zones from the same region as the load balancer.</p> <p>You must specify at least one Availability Zone.</p> <p>You can add more Availability Zones after you create the load balancer using <a>EnableAvailabilityZonesForLoadBalancer</a>.</p>
The IDs of the subnets in your VPC to attach to the load balancer. Specify one subnet per Availability Zone specified in <code>AvailabilityZones</code>.
The IDs of the security groups to assign to the load balancer.
<p>The type of a load balancer. Valid only for load balancers in a VPC.</p> <p>By default, Elastic Load Balancing creates an Internet-facing load balancer with a DNS name that resolves to public IP addresses. For more information about Internet-facing and Internal load balancers, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/how-elastic-load-balancing-works.html#load-balancer-scheme">Load Balancer Scheme</a> in the <i>Elastic Load Balancing User Guide</i>.</p> <p>Specify <code>internal</code> to create a load balancer with a DNS name that resolves to private IP addresses.</p>
<p>A list of tags to assign to the load balancer.</p> <p>For more information about tagging your load balancer, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/add-remove-tags.html">Tag Your Classic Load Balancer</a> in the <i>Classic Load Balancers Guide</i>.</p>
Responses
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request GET \2 --url 'http://elasticloadbalancing.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=CreateLoadBalancer' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}